Programmatic & Display Business Director

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own programmatic leadership and strategic direction across multi-client teams, aligning with broader digital and offline media plans while driving data-driven planning and measurement.

  • Leadership: Manage and mentor a multi-layer programmatic team, setting vision and developing top performance through training and collaboration.
  • Strategy and measurement: Define the programmatic roadmap and ensure robust measurement frameworks tied to client outcomes and cross-channel plans.
  • Opportunity and partnerships: Identify new programmatic opportunities, foster partner relationships, and contribute to new business pitches and agency-wide initiatives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor and manage a team of programmatic specialists, providing training and development opportunities, and encouraging a collaborative and high-performing environment
  • Define and drive the agency’s programmatic vision, ensuring cutting-edge strategies and best practices are implemented
  • Serve as a senior advisor to clients, providing high-level strategic guidance and ensuring programmatic is a key driver of success
  • Ensure the programmatic activity through the team aligns with wider digital and offline media strategies for a holistic approach
  • Promote a data-driven approach to campaign planning, execution and performance reporting, ensuring robust measurement frameworks
  • Maintain oversight of the client audit process for the channel to ensure targets are met and potential issues are escalated
  • Identify new opportunities within programmatic, including media efficiencies, data strategies and tech innovations to drive business growth
  • Build strong relationships with media partners, technology providers and industry bodies to drive innovation and commercial negotiations, maximising value and efficiency for our clients
  • Support and present as part of a team in delivery of new business pitch, departmental and agency-wide meetings
  • Stay ahead of industry developments, emerging trends, and technological advancements to keep the agency and clients competitive

Requirements

  • Experience in managing a large, multi-layered team and a desire to continue this
  • Ability to lead your team to develop and plan strategies to achieve agency commercial goals
  • Ability to manage multiple clients, ensure all deadlines are met and that team output is always of the highest quality
  • Confident and effective leader
  • Advanced knowledge of cross channel and ad tech market
  • Strong understanding of digital landscape and how programmatic fits into the media plan
  • Negotiation skills to deliver best commercial value for client
  • Confidently lead presentations with a strong and compelling narrative
  • Develop and plan strategies to achieve agency commercial goals
  • Advanced analytical skills to interrogate and develop best practice processes

Benefits

  • Flexible Working At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
  • Be Your Best We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at beyourbest@omnicommediagroup.com to let us know how we can support you.
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.
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MG OMD

MG OMD, part of Omnicom Media, brings innovation, insight and creativity to the world of media. We combine award-winning strategy, deep expertise in data and digital, and strong industry relationships to deliver effective, future-ready media solutions that create difference that matters for our clients.We are proud to be the most awarded media agency in the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and the Thinkbox TV Planning Awards. 2024 marked a landmark year, winning 100% of the Best Agency accolades, including Campaign’s Global Media Agency of the Year, Media Week’s Agency of the Year, The Media Leader’s Agency of the Year and Campaign’s Media Agency of the Year.In 2025, we continued to make history as the first agency ever to retain both Campaign UK and The Media Leader’s Agency of the Year titles for a second year running. The year also saw Gold at Cannes Lions for Media: Channel Integration and recognition as Thinkbox’s Network Agency of the Year.MG OMD is home to a thriving culture and industry-leading talent, recognised in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for the third consecutive year.Omnicom Media is the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC).

Founded in 1990
London, England, GBR
612 employees (91 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.1%
Direct
42.2%
Referral
6.8%
Social
1.8%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~612

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
79 (13% of company)